The King Years Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement [Paperback]

The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterialAmerica in the King Yearstrilogy—Parting the Waters;Pillar of Fire; andAt Canaan’s Edge.

Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence,The King Yearsdelivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and continues to offer crucial lessons for today’s world. This vital primer amply fulfills Branch’s dedication: “For students of freedom and teachers of history.”“Right out of the pages of our lives….Compelling portraits placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently.”“In remarkable, meticulous detail, Branch provides us with the most complex and unsentimental version of King and his times yet produced.”“There will be the inevitable comparisons to Carl Sandburg’sAbraham Lincolnand Shelby Foote’sThe Civil War, two other masterworks that use the grand sweep of history to lay barethe nation’s soul.”